Creativity and What Goes on Inside Your Brain

Creativity is one of the age-old questions most of us have pondered at one time or another. What makes a creative person’s brain different from the rest of ours? We are intensely proud of everything we have in our inventory at our online store from fabric cosmetic bags to a variety of different and exciting earring choices. We thought it might be interesting to share what we found about what goes on in the minds of the inspired people that make our products.

The studies that shaped the general consensus for the way the grey matter works for artists were implemented back in the 1960s and a groundbreaking bit of research by Frank X. Barron. He invited a group of creative minded and famous people at the time to a special location at the University of Berkeley. The guests included famous novelists like Truman Capote. What Barron found out surprised a lot of people when his research told us that creativity was not necessarily sparked by intelligence alone.

Barron further discovered that having the motivation to build beautiful and aesthetically pleasing things comes from a whole host of different characteristics that blend together to spark the creative fire. There were, however, several personality traits that seemed to come up again and again in creative people and they included a desire and willingness to explore their inner self, a high tolerance for chaos and, perhaps most of all, a real desire to take risks.

When all was said and done, Barron was asked to sum up his work in one or two sentences. He came up with the facts that creativity is fostered in people both more cultured and primitive, saner and crazier as well as more constructive and more destructive than the average person. Isn’t it nice to know that beauty is still in the eye of the beholder and just as hard as ever to pin down?